North Carolina's flagship public university is for the first time identifying one of the employees disciplined after an investigation into a long-running scheme involving fake classes and inflated grades that helped athletes stay eligible to compete.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday responded to a public records request showing that 32-year-old Jaimie Lee lost her $39,000-a-year academic counseling job the same day the report was published last month.

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Former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein found that while the sham courses were in one academic department, multiple people around campus knew of them or suspected something but said nothing.

The report says Lee knew all about the fake classes, including that crucial term papers were graded by a friendly department secretary rather than a professor.